The Presidency has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will sack any of his recently inaugurated ministers and other appointees who fail to perform in their designated offices.
Politics Nigeria gathered that the Senior Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, stated this on Monday during an interview on ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily.
The presidential aide said his principal is not someone who is afraid to sanction or sack anybody to ensure that he get the desired results.
He said: “The President has set the benchmarks. The question now is about enforcement, and the President has shown, as he did during his time in Lagos State as governor, that he is not someone who is afraid to fire anybody.
“He is not somebody that is afraid to levy quick sanctions to ensure that they get the results that he wants ’cause, ultimately, if this administration fails, they will not say a minister failed, or a set of ministers failed. They will say President Bola Tinubu failed, and he will not accept failure.”
Ngelale noted that Tinubu spent several months since his victory at the February 25 presidential election setting clear goals for each ministry and a series of reform committees across all sectors.
“President Tinubu basically looked at exactly what His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari has achieved and said, ‘This is what we want to do to build on all these achievements’.
“We’re going to effectively implement a plan within a certain amount of time based on time-based benchmarks that when a minister has come in, we would be able to measure their performance against.
“Every minister coming in absolutely knows what they have to achieve within the time frame that’s been given to them by the President, and that’s something in the history of Nigerian governance we’ve never seen before.”
